Portia Zvavahera

Portia Zvavahera
Portia Zvavahera, Meredith Brown, Allie Biswas
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Hardback
h279 x 241mm - 112pg
9 Jun 2022 US
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9781644230718
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In her paintings, Zvavahera gives form to emotions that manifest from other realms and dimensions beyond the domains of everyday life and thought. Her vivid imagery is rooted in the cornerstones of our earthly existence-life and death, pain and pleasure, isolation and connection, and love and loss. Zvavahera draws from a powerful visual vocabulary comprising women, her family, and shape-shifting animals, in scenes both metaphorical and fantastical. In several paintings she makes use of intricate patterns taken from her own floral or classical Zimbabwean designs. Her particular process of alternating painting and printing results in images that communicate complex emotions in a play of tension and release. The result is a deeply personal body of work that probes the nature of the human condition. As Zvavahera states, "It is me in the paintings. . . . I can only speak about myself. "In addition to gorgeous reproductions of 24 paintings, including up-close details and installation views, this catalogue also features a new essay by Meredith Brown and an interview with the artist by Allie Biswas. This catalogue surveys work made since 2017.
Portia Zvavahera was born in 1985 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she currently lives and works. She studied at the BAT Visual Arts Studio, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, from 2003 to 2005. She then received a diploma in visual arts from Harare Polytechnic in 2006. Allie Biswas is a writer and researcher based in London. She is coeditor of The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980 (2021). She has published interviews with artists including Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Meleko Mokgosi, Zanele Muholi, Adam Pendleton, and Wolfgang Tillmans. She has written catalogue essays for monographs on the work of Rina Banerjee, Hannah van Bart, Arcmanoro Niles, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. Forthcoming publications include a catalogue about the U. S. Embassy' s art collection in London and interviews with Theaster Gates, Lubna Chowdhary, and Ibrahim Mahama.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781644230718
Published: 9 Jun 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: David Zwirner Books
Publisher: David Zwirner
Format: Hardback
Height: 279mm
Width: 241mm
Pages: 112

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